First ever MA movie ever seen

[sanjuro_ronin]

Just for ****s and giggles.

What was the first ever MA movie you ever saw?
Also, what was the most "motivational" one?

First ever was an old kung fu flick called "Kung Fu Gold".

[doug maverick]

i have been literally watching kung fu movies since the womb. so i dont know. the first one i remember is i think cripple masters but im not sure.

[sanjuro_ronin]

i have been literally watching kung fu movies since the womb. so i dont know. the first one i remember is i think cripple masters but im not sure.

Well, what was the one that "marked" you the most.

Me it was the Executioners of Shaolin !!
:D

[doug maverick]

drunken tai chi. donnies first film, i was like 6 years old when i saw it. it was playing at one of those timesquare theaters that played porn in one theater and kung fu movies in the other. for twenty four hours. snuck down there with my bro, who was only seven at the time. only in new york can two little kids get on the train travel all the way to manhatten and walk in a theater on a school day and nobody say's nothing.

[sanjuro_ronin]

it was playing at one of those timesquare theaters that played porn in one theater and kung fu movies in the other...

LOL, ah, the memories...

[doug maverick]

yeah they would play for twenty four hours a day. until ****ing guilliani came along and ****ing mickey moused the **** out of timesquare forcing all those theaters to close and effectively killing what made new york city what it was. the grit

[Zenshiite]

Mine was probably something lame. Karate Kid comes to mind. Later it would've been TMNT.

Thankfully those prompted me looking into more stuff. Crappy 80s ninja movies, then Bruce Lee, then samurai flicks... specifically Kurosawa's stuff and the Samurai trilogy, then Jet Li and Jackie Chan and gradually just got immersed in Hong Kong cinema.

[Shaolinlueb]

enter the dragon with bruce lee was the first one.

[Egg fu young]

I can't remember but I know it was on Black Belt theater wich was on every Saturday night (I hate spelling Saturday, I always sing the Krofft superstars song)

[Pork Chop]

avenging warriors of the shaolin is the first one I remember, from when i was a kid - huge, freakin, pumpkin-shaped melon hammer was the coolest thing ever.

There was another movie with carter wong where he had some tattoo on his forearms and killed some bronzemen in a shaolin thing atop a walkway over a pit of spikes - one of the 18 bronzemen movies, not sure which.

[GeneChing]

I was addicted to late night TV as a kid (still am) so it was probably something there. I know I was going to catch Shaw Brothers flicks in S.F. Chinatown by the mid 70's already. I used to tag along with my shixiong for dim sum and afternoons at the Great Star.

[BoulderDawg]

I think the name of the first MA film that I remember was "The Chinese Connection"...at least I think this was the name of it.

It had a lot of wire fu in it.

[banditshaw]

I spent time in the UK when I was 4 or 5 and I was fascinated with this show called Monkey which was based on the monkey king. Lotsa special effects and crazy acrobatic Kung Fu. That was the first I remember.

Two movies hit me the hardest and that was 1st. Return of the Dragon and 2nd. Executioners from Shaolin.

[Jimbo]

I think my first MA movie played once on CBS or NBS in 1974 called Men of the Dragon. It was a TV movie that was a ripoff of Enter the Dragon, except the stars played an American brother and sister along with Robert Ito who infiltrate a Han-like island in Hong Kong. I was in 5th grade at the time.

Later I saw lots of low-grade basher-style KF movies, but the first one to give me an impression was (I hate to say) Game of Death when it was released in '79. I'd never seen a Bruce Lee movie until that time, and then the re-release of Enter the Dragon that same year.

[Yao Sing]

"Five Fingers of Death" at the drive-in. This was just before Bruce Lee films hit the US but if you count TV shows it would be "Ultra Man".

[Jimbo]

Well, if we are counting TV series, my first was Green Hornet when I was 3 or 4 years old. That was in its original run, in '66 and '67. Though at the time Bruce Lee and martial arts left no impression on me whatsoever. And I remembered the Batman/Robin vs. Green Hornet/Kato episode.

The first American-made MA movie I saw in a theater was Norris's Good Guys Wear Black...well, that wasn't a MA movie. So maybe it was Circle of Iron.

[bakxierboxer]

"Five Fingers of Death" at the drive-in. This was just before Bruce Lee films hit the US but if you count TV shows it would be "Ultra Man".

My first kung fu flic was "Come Drink With Me" in NYC Chinatown in the theater on the "square" @ 1966......